Direct to Phase II Open Topic: Open Call for Innovative Defense-Related Dual-Purpose Technologies/Solutions with a Clear Air Force Stakeholder Need

Ensuring the integrity and trustworthiness of microelectronics is a fundamental need for national security. Unfortunately, trusted foundries are limited, and current trust verification applications have trouble with scale. Power Fingerprinting (PFP) is a novel approach for integrity assessment to detect malicious intrusions that enable non-destructive screening and verification of ICs and PCBs for leading edge devices in scale. PFP is based on fine-grained anomaly detection on microelectronics side channels, such as power consumption or electromagnetic emissions. PFP leverages machine learning to establish baseline of normal patterns and uses it to detect deviations from expected operation. PFP has been in development for several years, mostly focused on firmware integrity assessment of IoT devices and critical infrastructure, for which it has developed commercial solutions. For this Phase II effort, we look to leverage our commercial solutions to support multiple use cases relevant to the T&AM and MINSEC efforts. We will leverage our commercial partnerships with Keysigh, Supermicro, and ARM to integrate into manufacturing environments and scale. The ultimate goal is to transition PFP technology into a complete deployable solution to perform agile, non-destructive inspections of electronic parts in production environment that can be added to the set of options offered by JFAC.